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{{nutshell|Everyone is empowered to change Wikipedia, but that means less than you might think.}}
'''Almost every''' Wikipedia user, whether they are a registered [[wp:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] with an account and password or are just anonymously browsing, sees and can use an ''edit'' link on almost every page of the Encyclopedia, and following that link, can change the content of the page.
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'''Yes'''. But... isn't it also suicide?
'''No'''. And that is even more exciting! And the whole reason that Wikipedia works.
Wikipedia has [[wp:page history|page histories]]. So every time you make a change to an article (or most other pages), the old version is still there too, and is almost as easily accessible to a reader or to another editor as the [[wp:current version|current version]] of the page.
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===Blocks and bans===
Particularly troublesome users can be [[wp:block|block]]ed or [[wp:ban|ban]]ned from editing, either temporarily or permanently. These measures are not punishment, they are purely to protect Wikipedia and its other users.
Most users never even need to know about blocks and bans. [[wp:creed#wrong|Everyone makes mistakes]] and nearly all mistakes are [[wp:AGF|honest]], and you won't get blocked or banned for these. And if another user falsely threatens you with a block or a ban, that is itself [[wp:disruption|disruption]] so it can easily [[wp:boomerang|boomerang]] on them.
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